Hold each petal over the tea light, don't burn your fingers! The petals will start curling up now, don't worry about "burnt" edges, they will give you that desired vintage look:

Wanneer je alleen de kleine cirkels gebruikt, blijven de bloemen ook klein, hoe meer blaadjes je gebruikt, des te voller dat je bloemen worden - If you only use the small circles, you will have small flowers; the more petals you use, the more body your flowers will have:

Going abroad on vacation is lovely, but how about our own small country! The holiday season has yet to begin and many foreigners will come to the Netherlands to see what we have to offer, which is quite a lot! Of course our country is known for its mills, tulips, farmers on wooden shoes, but also for its handicraft (e.g. crochet). With this card I'd like to promote my country, now I start sounding like one of those ladies at the Tourist Office, LOL! The tulip is a stamp of Art Specially (coloured with distress ink), the farmer's kids is a colouring page (are a colouring page sounds so weard?). Another typically Dutch thing: our language can be quite difficult at times ;-) I cut the wooden shoe from cardstock and stamped the grass with Viva Decor (My Paper World 14), wrinkled the ribbon (in the colours of our national flag!) The crochet flower has been lying in my drawer for more than 3 years, shame on me... (well, it didn't have to lie there all by itself, it still has company of other flowers ;-)

Another thing I really really appreciate is this gorgeous award, given to me by dear Lori, thanks again! Doesn't it look totally yummie??? I need to tell 7 things about myself so here we go, try to come up with something new ;-)

I really love making cards, but when you'd love to include a gift a box card might do the trick! Papers used are Prima Marketing. Stupid me, I forgot to take a picture of the open drawer with the gift inside, but hey, the recipient knows its contents ;-)

So because of all the lovely stuff above I didn't have time to create nor visit your blogs! Before our holiday, I had already made a card for a friend whose birthday was yesterday; the stamp is from The Stampsmith, I made the flower myself from silk.